Obey Love

Passage Intro Note: the sermon was on the whole 4th chapter, but you could do at least three separate discussions as a group on it. We'll just be focusing on verse 4-9. Here we are at the end of the letter, and Paul is beginning his closing remarks. In 4:1 he...

Passage Intro Continuing off his thought in verse 16, “Let us hold true to what we have attained,” Paul encourages the Philippians to join in imitating him and the example of other faithful Christians. And right out the gate that encouragement might be a little...

Passage Intro Don’t miss the antecedent; otherwise this passage is pretty confusing. When Paul starts with “Not that I have already obtained this,” the “this” is the resurrection. He’s just continuing his thought from verse 11. Here Paul says that he is living his...

Passage Intro Paul starts a new section here in chapter 3, returning to a familiar content point for many of his letters. Paul was frequently running in a specific heresy in the church proposed by folks we call the Judaizers. These people wanted to tack Jesus onto the...

Passage Intro That “therefore” at the start of this section means everything we’re going to talk about this week is based on what we talked about last week. “Therefore” looks back to Christ’s example of humility, his glorification, and most immediately, the fact that...

Passage Intro Paul is switching gears starting in chapter 2. Up until now he has opened with a greeting and updated the Philippians on how he’s been doing in prison; his reflections in 1:12-30 show he’s staying focused and encouraged despite the circumstances. Now he...

Passage Intro We're in the middle of our ten-week series in Philippians called Obey Love. Simultaneously we're holding the Gospel-Centered Life class, which many of our groups will be attending in lieu of their regular weekly meetings. Over summer as we work to...

Passage Intro We're in the middle of our ten-week series in Philippians called Obey Love. Simultaneously we're holding the Gospel-Centered Life class, which many of our groups will be attending in lieu of their regular weekly meetings. Over summer as we work to...

Passage Intro We're in the middle of our ten-week series in Philippians called Obey Love. Simultaneously we're holding the Gospel-Centered Life class, which many of our groups will be attending in lieu of their regular weekly meetings. Over summer as we work to...

Passage Intro The 2019 theme for Vintage Church is “Love God, love your neighbor.” We began the year by studying the four covenants of the Old Testament, laying the foundation of love. Then in the Spring we examined how Jesus saw and loved each individual he...